diff --git a/flink-kubernetes/src/main/java/org/apache/flink/kubernetes/kubeclient/KubeClientFactory.java b/flink-kubernetes/src/main/java/org/apache/flink/kubernetes/kubeclient/KubeClientFactory.java
index 65c142d49bdc7f70f49f3433ec36208193cc8ca1..5635654a3894b8fefac5a30ba37747373540b9ac 100644
--- a/flink-kubernetes/src/main/java/org/apache/flink/kubernetes/kubeclient/KubeClientFactory.java
+++ b/flink-kubernetes/src/main/java/org/apache/flink/kubernetes/kubeclient/KubeClientFactory.java
@@ -20,7 +20,7 @@ package org.apache.flink.kubernetes.kubeclient;
 
 import org.apache.flink.configuration.Configuration;
 import org.apache.flink.kubernetes.configuration.KubernetesConfigOptions;
-import org.apache.flink.kubernetes.utils.KubernetesUtils;
+import org.apache.flink.util.FileUtils;
 
 import io.fabric8.kubernetes.client.Config;
 import io.fabric8.kubernetes.client.DefaultKubernetesClient;
@@ -29,6 +29,7 @@ import io.fabric8.kubernetes.client.KubernetesClientException;
 import org.slf4j.Logger;
 import org.slf4j.LoggerFactory;
 
+import java.io.File;
 import java.io.IOException;
 
 /**
@@ -55,7 +56,7 @@ public class KubeClientFactory {
 				// Note: the third parameter kubeconfigPath is optional and is set to null. It is only used to rewrite
 				// relative tls asset paths inside kubeconfig when a file is passed, and in the case that the kubeconfig
 				// references some assets via relative paths.
-				config = Config.fromKubeconfig(kubeContext, KubernetesUtils.getContentFromFile(kubeConfigFile), null);
+				config = Config.fromKubeconfig(kubeContext, FileUtils.readFileUtf8(new File(kubeConfigFile)), null);
 			} catch (IOException e) {
 				throw new KubernetesClientException("Load kubernetes config failed.", e);
 			}
diff --git a/flink-kubernetes/src/main/java/org/apache/flink/kubernetes/utils/KubernetesUtils.java b/flink-kubernetes/src/main/java/org/apache/flink/kubernetes/utils/KubernetesUtils.java
index f0c6f138792ac0440f6935c0db40decb711f3dfd..d3ec4113e3c619fffc6d3b87a0856a31a890abc8 100644
--- a/flink-kubernetes/src/main/java/org/apache/flink/kubernetes/utils/KubernetesUtils.java
+++ b/flink-kubernetes/src/main/java/org/apache/flink/kubernetes/utils/KubernetesUtils.java
@@ -33,12 +33,6 @@ import org.slf4j.LoggerFactory;
 
 import javax.annotation.Nullable;
 
-import java.io.BufferedReader;
-import java.io.File;
-import java.io.FileInputStream;
-import java.io.FileNotFoundException;
-import java.io.IOException;
-import java.io.InputStreamReader;
 import java.util.Collections;
 import java.util.HashMap;
 import java.util.Map;
@@ -52,29 +46,6 @@ public class KubernetesUtils {
 
 	private static final Logger LOG = LoggerFactory.getLogger(KubernetesUtils.class);
 
-	/**
-	 * Read file content to string.
-	 *
-	 * @param filePath file path
-	 * @return content
-	 */
-	public static String getContentFromFile(String filePath) throws FileNotFoundException {
-		File file = new File(filePath);
-		if (file.exists()) {
-			StringBuilder content = new StringBuilder();
-			String line;
-			try (BufferedReader reader = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(new FileInputStream(file)))){
-				while ((line = reader.readLine()) != null) {
-					content.append(line).append(System.lineSeparator());
-				}
-			} catch (IOException e) {
-				throw new RuntimeException("Error read file content.", e);
-			}
-			return content.toString();
-		}
-		throw new FileNotFoundException("File " + filePath + " not exists.");
-	}
-
 	/**
 	 * Check whether the port config option is a fixed port. If not, the fallback port will be set to configuration.
 	 * @param flinkConfig flink configuration